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The Skating Rink
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 7 October 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge.
Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene.
Narrated by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous civil servant, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York Times
‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian
© Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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The Skating Rink…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland.
The Observer
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This Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition.
The Independent
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[A] short, exquisite novel
The New York Times Book Review
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A sizzling cocktail of sex, death and obsession set on the Costa Brava.
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Elegant, elusive and amusing
Daily Telegraph
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Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever.
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Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled
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Roberto Bolaño offers a unique, multilayered and quirky perspective on contemporary life.
Daily Mail
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One of the most respected and influential writers of his generation... At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.
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‘Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño.
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Details
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Narrator
- Emilio Delgado, David Crommett, Tony Chiroldes
- Duration
- 5 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529983197
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge.Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene.Narrated by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous civil servant, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York Times‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian© Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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